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Originally Posted by djangoles
Here's "Dust My Broom" with Derek Trucks.
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06-18-2014 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by MattC
Here's Snooks doing "Lipstick Traces" live (with George Porter, Jr. on bass.) Snooks has his own sort of fingerstyle....
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
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For a white, electric, British blues, for me, it's got to be Jeff Beck.
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Originally Posted by MattC
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Originally Posted by Philco
Awww, man.....Don't be that guy(j/k)
I rate '461 Ocean Blvd' and his first solo album above Cream. You all read that right; I like Slowhand when he dials back the fuzz tone. Super funky sound. His band from Oklahoma is super under-rated
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It would have to be Robben Ford.
Michael Landau if you want a rock/blues guitarist.
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This guy needs to be mentioned. His career was short but his best was as good as anybody's.
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SRV for me just because he broke big as i was forming as a guitar player at 16 years old in 1983. I would pick up the occasional guitar player magazine and had clapton's blues breaker album and hendrix and they would mention these old blues cats and Stevie just seemed to plug right into that at that time when new wave was all the rage ...
aahh i long for the old days sittin' in my parents bedroom being blown away by his first two albums
good memories
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Originally Posted by Melodic Dreamer
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Originally Posted by insideout
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Well, I think this guy will be unknown to most of You, but he is my fauvorite blues guitarist.
NAme is Tibor Tátrai. Check him out!
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Originally Posted by richb2
Killer stuff.
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I have most like to hearing the guitar sound. it is really wonderful to hear.
my friend and me have to joining in the singing class.
if you get take any training to produce that sound?
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Roy Buchannan's After Hours remains for me one of the best I've ever heard, and almost anything by BB King.
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Rory Gallagher. Although not strictly blues.
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Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
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Melvin Taylor:
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As a lifelong student of the blues, I've heard them all. SRV does it for me more than anyone else.
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The late Michael Burks, R.I.P, who passed away in his early fifties was one of many favorites of mine and probably my favorite contemporary Blues. His tone was so full and his vibrato weeped, as did the big man's voice. I caught him live a couple of times - great experience!
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Just listened to Michael Burks above and it got me all over again.
The great Bluesmen, in my humble opinion, have a way of making you think their songs are real and are taken from their own life experiences and pain.
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this guy is pretty good:
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I have been listening to a ton of Muddy Waters lately. What a giant of music. His voice and his guitar phrasing--absolutely unique.
I realize there were other great blues players around at the time, and he himself learned from and copied from Son House and idolized Robert Johnson, but IMO if he hadn't been moved to Chicago and been recorded by the Chess brothers, we wouldn't be talking about 95% of the folks above. It would just be an obscure folk music. He more than anyone electrified the blues and made it mainstream.
Not to mention all the white guys that had big hits playing his songs. (Though many of them, including the Rolling Stones, Johnny Winters and Eric Clapton, returned the favor.)
BTW Eric Clapton's new album is out--a tribute to JJ Cale. I personally never got into Cale as a performer or guitarist much, though he was a pretty good songwriter. This album is one of EC's better "laid back" albums--nice, understated guitar work, syncopated in the Chet/Merle style but always bluesy. I'll take it over most of his 80's stuff anyday.
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while he didn't do many bloozes....he spanks this one out...and some nice harmonies at 3:22
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Good choice. I had "Stephen Stills" decades ago - forgot how good it is. Great guitar player, songwriter and singer. He sometimes tuned his guitar EEEEBE - not as far as I know a New Standard Tuning...
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yea...while I'm no hippie, I do like CSNY...and Miles liked them so I guess it's alright then. hahaha
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Originally Posted by mangotango
I liked that Peter Green stuff. I know that Gary Moore really thought a lot of him and I can see a taste of why that was so.
But there is something about the bravado, bragging manner of Muddy Waters that gets your attention. He was one heck of a "trash" talker in his songs and had a way of making me laugh and smile as I listened to him or watched one of his videos!
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Now if you want to hear Blues with a rock inflection like Albert King's later tone, and Cream/BluesBreaker Blues, here is what IMHO is one of the great Blues Guitars performances from Gary Moore.
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Hard to pick a favorite but I love Albert King's playing.... big, loud and brash.
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There are many greats and it's unfair to compare them but I like Eric Clapton best. His thick, icy tone and dramatic phrases set him apart from all the others back in the day. Mayall's other guitarists, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and Coco Montoya, copied Clapton's sound to a fair extent as has nearly everyone since. Before Clapton guitars were twangy sounding; nowadays twang is a minority (though I love a good Tele twang.) I don't want to deny Peter Green's greatness but I don't like it when people invoke him to trash Clapton. One quote I've seen is that B.B. King said that Peter Green had more talent in his left finger than King had in his whole body. That's impressive praise but I haven't been able to locate a credible source for it. You've no doubt heard the one about Jimi Hendrix being asked how it felt to be the greatest guitarist and replying 'Don't ask me; ask [fill in the blank with your favorite.]' Most people now think that quote is apocryphal, but in any case all versions of it but one are apocryphal!
I also like Wes Montgomery, Lenny Breau, Kevin Eubanks (there - a living guitarist) and many others.
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Thanks for speaking my mind! The phrasing is incredible as was the unearthly tone that Clapton introduced. I agree he should never have converted to Stratism -- though I love the Strat. The Gibson was ideal for him. It's probably that ass writer for Rolling Stone who called him 'master of the obvious' who caused him to reinvent himself. Like Mozart his phrases are 'obvious' only in hindsight and that's because they are so logical and economical. But Clapton would have had to evolve sooner or later. Sadly, blues rock was a fashion and like all fashions you can't keep doing it your whole life unless you want to end up broke.
Some of my favorite Clapton solos are from Beano - esp Double Crossing Time - and Fresh Cream - esp Sweet Wine (what a hurricane of sound!), I'm Glad (sheer perfection), and Sleepy Time Time. Also, the live version of Spoonful from Wheels of Fire is exhilarating. Any minute long chunk of it has more good licks than the average ten minute solo.
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Originally Posted by Philco
Last edited by WESTON; 08-09-2014 at 09:19 PM.
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I've always dug this from Peter Green. His taste and tone are simply awesome.
Watch Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGBgfbbCALc
Last edited by Jim8208; 08-13-2014 at 11:10 PM.
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Fred,
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Freddie King.
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RIP Peter Green
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But I don't know if anyone is better at a variety of blues styles than Johnny Winter. And the guy's still out there, playing the hell out of his guitar.
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Sadly, Johnny died in 2014 after giving his last performance at the Cahors Blues Festival here in SW France where I was proud to be one of three programmateurs. He died in Switzerland in his hotel room three days later. We have a street named after him - Rue Johnny Winter.
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First guitarist to pop into my head - Walter Trout
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It's all been said... of the old guys, Blake's a lovely picker.
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OK, very late to this party, and mostly here to say amen to all of the above, esp Al King, Al Collins, Robben Ford and... the one nobody has mentioned yet... Chris Cain! Chris just plays with such soul and a killer tone. He has chops for days but never subverts the melody to the chops, never just shows off. His own site has a bunch of video (link below) and Google can turn you on to much more.
Cain Gallery | Video Clips
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Hands down Roy Buchanan - say him live twice monster player
Will
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Either RL Burnside or Ali Farka Toure
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Robben Ford
T Bone Walker
Eric Bibb
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Anyone into Eric Gales ?
Blues Power !
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BB King can't be overstated. Maybe he's too familiar? If you want to play blues, study BB King. That's what every electric player since T Bone did.
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nobody could cut albert collins
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Originally Posted by Sam9
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Skip James..song sounds familiar... ;-)
Kids, don’t try this picking at home. Might hurt your finger.
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